The French came and built Fort Caroline.
Hugenots searching for free belief.
Spanish Catholics came and killed them.
Slaves fled to the Spanish colony.
They hoped it was a place to be free.
Then Spain sold Florida to the South.
Then the Civil War promised freedom.
Hope was held by the Freedmen's Bureau.
They got segregation and Jim Crow.
The Seminoles came fleeing exile.
They wanted a place to call their home.
The United States gave them three wars.
Southern Planters to Carpet Baggers.
Carpet Baggers to Business Tycoons.
Does it ever really get better?
The elderly came here to retire.
They wanted affordable comfort.
They got inflation; Covid 19.
The Republicans and Democrats.
Rule of Florida bounced back and forth.
No one ever noticed any change.
A movement pushed for LGBT.
The government promised them their rights.
Ask the Pulse Nightclub how that worked out.
Florida has one real religion.
Nihilism: They believe nothing.
Everything we build get blown away.
Let go of hope; Just get through the day.
Party your way through a hurricane.
Just sit back and watch the destruction.
Florida is the apocalypse.
